Show Merry Round Merry By y DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN Trade Mark V WASHINGTON Big WASHINGTON Big Jim Farleys Farley's chickens arc coming home to roost in Nebraska with the result that the state which went for Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Booze velt in 1932 looks like an almost sure bet for Landon in 1936 The White House has become so alarmed over the situation that the president is giving giving ing lag it hi his private and personal attention The gloomy state of affairs is due entirely to Big Jims Jim's penchant for playing machine pol pal His love-feast love with the two two old guard Democratic bosses of Nebraska has not only split the thc party wide open there but has alienated alienated alienated alien alien- the liberal Republicans whose votes Roosevelt must win to carry the state The Nebraska Democratic organization is dominated by Arthur Mullen former national committeeman and Senator Edward R. R Burke Mullens Mullen's henchman and successor to his place on the national committee And while playing ball ban with Jim Farley Parley on one hand these two have smeared the administration in pr practically everything they have said or don done Religious Issue Nebraska only has four big patronage plums a a federal judge U. U S. S attorney collector of f Internal in internal internal In- In revenue and U. U S. S marshal Despite vehement vehement ment mont protests from liberals and Democrats Faricy Farley Farley Far Far- ley icy has backed up Mullen and Burke in filling every one of these places with a Catholic That the religious issue should be he m made de a factor in a campaign is extremely unfortunate It is un- un American and bigoted But the that in Nebraska it has been made an issue ag against the administration because of Mullen- Mullen Burke Farley ineptitude Burke has capped this covert sabotage by harpooning the new deal openly In the senate he hc lined up against the president on every majar major major ma ma- jor jar administration measure And on the stump he has been vigorously denouncing the administration administration administration admin admin- for criticising the supreme court His speeches would do justice to a Liberty leaguer Only Hope Political scouts have reported to the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House that Senator George Norris Nebraska's great liberal is the only hope for saving the state for Roosevelt If Norris can be persuaded to run for reelection reelection reelection re re- re- re election as a Roosevelt pro-Roosevelt independent he might rally sufficient liberal support to put the president over Norris is for Roosevelt But he is indifferent ent about seeking a fifth term For the thc last two months he hc has been quietly vacationing in inthe inthe the thc Wisconsin lake country with no indication as to whether he will accept the call It has been suggested that Roosevelt make a personal appeal to Norris to enter the race But Mullen and Burke are energetically prodding prodding prodding prod prod- ding Farley to dissuade the president Whether they succeed remains to be seen Oklahoma Oratory Senator Gore GorC Oklahoma's blind Democrat recently defeated for by Representative Representative sen- sen Josh Lee is telling this story on his successful successful suc sue new deal rival Lee was formerly a teacher of public speaking speaking speaking speak speak- ing and during his senatorial campaign toured the state regaling crowds with classic ora ora- According to Gore a murderer was about to tobe tobe be hanged and arid just before he adjusted the noose the sheriff asked the condemned man if he had anything to say The prisoner said he had not Whereupon Lee stepped up and said If the prisoner doesn't care to speak I would like tomake to make use of his time to say a few words I I III object sheriff protested the prisoner Ive heard Lees Lee's speech three times and Ill I'll be damned if I want to hear it again I want to todie todie todie die in peace Movie 1 Magnate 1 Tugwell Without saying anything about it Rex Tugwell Tugwell Tugwell Tug- Tug well is going in for movies in a big way His resettlement administration is now laying plans for producing another picture to succeed the highly successful three The Plow That Broke the Plains That cinema saga of the great plains has weathered the opposition of Hollywood film mogUls moguls mo mo- and become one of the most discussed shorts of the season In fact it rode to success largely on the tide of publicity created by the thc Hollywood opposition opposition opposition tion to government propaganda That opposition opposition opposition reached its high with the statement We wouldn't even distribute Ben Huh if if- it were a government picture Tugwell's publicity boys made the most of the opposition and up to September 1 have booked The Plow in 2500 independent theaters thea thea- terSe The new resettlement film is now in scenario form prepared by Pare Lorentz Lorents who created The tiThe Plow Subject will be the Mississippi river But the title will not be Old Man River Communist W V P A The liberal leanings of Harry Hopkins have lave put ut him in a hot spot with some of the worker organizations within W P A. A His orders say in effect that a communist I has as much right to a W P A job as an arch conservative Result has been a sharp cleavage cleavage cleavage cleav cleav- age between worker groups and the formation of rival unions within the projects Each union clamors for better treatment of its own members members members mem mem- bers as against the rivals Greatest hotbeds of controversy are in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and San Francisco where red project unions are strong in numbers and vociferous in expression The type of V W P A project that breeds greatest controversy is not the ditch- ditch digging or road building job but white collar job writers job writers artists and musicians A publication of one of these groups clamoring clamoring clamoring clam clam- oring for favors makes no bones about its political political po po- faith It declares in face bold-face type We Communists Must Stick Together The term rat unit as used by diet researchers research research- ers is s a measurement of vitamin D. D To determine determine determine deter deter- mine how much vitamin D a certain food contains contains contains con con- scientists feed it to rats afflicted with rickets A rat unit is the amount needed to produce new calcium deposits on the animals animal's bones S Serving on the newly named Great Plains drouth committee is Albert L. L Walthen of the Indian bureau who says he be once had a acre ranch in western Kansas which is now over in iri the next county as a result of dust storms S S S Mrs James Roosevelt mother of the president president dent owns a summer home on Campobello is island island is- is land New Brunswick just off the thc Maine coast in the Bay of Fundy No other property near is held or controlled by the Roosevelt family 1036 1936 by United Feature Sn Syndicate Inc InCI |